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• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of ... feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways ... what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x ... of February and classes began, I wrote a summary about my adventures

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by ... for a little bit we were addressed by Agent Adam, the coordinator of the ... during lunch when a friend of mine ran over and said "You have to watch

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  normal amount of time/would broadly recommend. Intermezzo by Sally ... of other books I've read in the past few years. The Gene by ... top-ten everything of the year completely unsolicited. TierMaker is my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... notice one of the MBTA buses parked by the side of the road, but only ... States of America three years ago. Packed all my belongings into four

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  I’ve found myself being reflective recently about a lot of things. A ... kinds of thoughts to mind. This happens every summer as the academic year ... but this year is different. Last year I attended the 25th reunion of my

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  change by tomorrow) of my hard-hitting semester, which, seven days after ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... our dorm. We planned a "Legends of the Hidden Temple" themed party, a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor-by ... singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  're expected to finish your requirement by the end of sophomore year, but there ... The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... stopped holding the bike and you rode it all by yourself (or fell down and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  invented in 2017 by people in Epsilon Theta, one of MIT’s independent living ... list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... a table by the windows with an excellent view of the Z center and ... butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  to by Madeline as Part of Me. Part of Madeline looks like a goth ... I have run out of things to write about because nothing is happening ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020